Defense Spending

Goodbye Peace Dividend

razib | February 1, 2010

I got the following chart from Wikipedia, and it suggests that on a per capita inflation-adjusted basis we're spending more on defense today than we were during the Reagan build-up, or Vietnam! Is this for real?

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